Negotiated at high prices, copper is the object of a raid carried out methodically by petty criminals, but also by gangs organized throughout the territory.
Signaling for railways, electrical wiring, pipes for irrigation systems, ornaments for tombs or industrial stocks, the red metal is looted in all its forms.
On the markets, its price has tripled since the beginning of the 2000s, in particular due to the strengthening of electricity networks inherent in energy transition policies.
Suffice to say that this windfall has generated a windfall effect that is undeniable among thugs.
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One of the latest cases dates back to March 22, with the remand in custody of a compulsive criminal who scoured the countryside of France to commit a dizzying series of thefts of overhead telephone cables.
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The operating mode used is always the same
, we tell the general management of the national gendarmerie.
The targeted lines are those…
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